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Cross-Modal Multivariate Pattern Analysis
Published on: November 9, 2011
Global precedence effect in audition and vision: evidence for similar cognitive styles across modalities
Lucie Bouvet1, Stéphane Rousset, Sylviane Valdois
1Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition, UMR CNRS, France. lucie.bouvet@upmf-grenoble.fr
Abstract:
This study aimed to provide evidence for a Global Precedence Effect (GPE) in both vision and audition modalities. In order to parallel Navon's paradigm, a novel auditory task was designed in which hierarchical auditory stimuli were used to involve local and global processing. Participants were asked to process auditory and visual hierarchical patterns at the local or global level. In both modalities, a global-over-local advantage and a global interference on local processing were found. The other compelling result is a significant correlation between these effects across modalities. Evidence that the same participants exhibit similar processing style across modalities strongly supports the idea of a cognitive style to process information and common processing principle in perception.
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